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5:50 PM ET, October 2, 2011

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Stephanie McCrummen / Washington Post:
At Rick Perry's Texas hunting spot, camp's old racially charged name lingered  —  Paint Creek, Tex. — In the early years of his political career, Rick Perry began hosting fellow lawmakers, friends and supporters at his family's secluded West Texas hunting camp, a place known by the name painted …
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Rick Perry disputes Washington Post story on slur  —  The presidential campaign of Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) complained Sunday that a front-page Washington Post story contains “incorrect, inconsistent” claims.  —  The article, headlined “Rick Perry and a word set on stone …
Fox News:
Cain: Name of Perry's Hunting Camp ‘Insulting’ to Blacks  —  Businessman Herman Cain on Sunday called it “insulting” that the family of Rick Perry leased a hunting camp with a racially charged name well into the 1980s and possibly even later.  —  According to a Washington Post article that appeared Sunday …
Discussion: Erick's blog
Rich Oppel / The Caucus:
Perry Open to Military Intervention in Mexico's Drug War
Nicholas D. Kristof / New York Times:
The Bankers and the Revolutionaries  —  AFTER flying around the world this year to cover street protests from Cairo to Morocco, reporting on the latest “uprising” was easier: I took the subway.  —  The “Occupy Wall Street” movement has taken over a park in Manhattan's financial district and turned it into a revolutionary camp.
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Thereisnospoon / Hullabaloo:
An excellent beginning by David Atkins  —  An excellent beginning  —  The official list of grievances of the General Assembly of Occupy Wall Street: … There are those who will argue that this list is far too broad and inclusive for a specifically anti-Wall Street protest.
New York Post:
Wall St. protesters shut down Brooklyn Bridge
Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
Restless House GOP members pointing fingers at one another  —  House Republicans return to Washington this week a restless bunch in the wake of an embarrassing legislative defeat and months before they face primary voters in the 2012 election.  —  The stunning downfall of a stopgap spending bill …
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Cheney wants Obama apology for saying Bush administration ‘overreacted to 9/11’  —  Former Vice President Dick Cheney applauded the U.S. drone strike that killed American-born al Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki but added that President Obama now owed the Bush administration an apology for claiming they “overreacted to 9/11.”
Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post:
Obama HRC Speech 2011: President Talks Gay Rights At Human Rights Campaign Dinner … Barack Obama , Human Rights Campaign , Obama Gay Rights , Dadt , Gay Marriage , Gay Rights , Same-Sex Marriage , Video , Defense Of Marriage Act , Obama Gay Rights Speech , Obama HRC Speech …
Discussion: Power Line, GayPatriot and The Politico
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RealClearPolitics Video Log:
Roseanne Barr: Behead Bankers, Rich Who Won't Give Up Wealth  —  Actress, comedienne and now author Roseanne Barr shares her solution for dealing with the rich and how the banks could repay the money the U.S. government bailed them out with in 2008.  “Part of my platform is, of course …
Edmund Blair / Reuters:
U.S. met with Egypt Islamists: U.S. diplomat  —  (Reuters) - U.S. officials have met members of the Muslim Brotherhood's political party, a U.S. diplomat said, after Washington announced it would have direct contacts with Egypt's biggest Islamist group whose role has grown since U.S. ally Hosni Mubarak was ousted.
Washington Examiner:
Barone: Time to raise Cain to contender status  —  Is Herman Cain a serious contender for the Republican presidential nomination?  It's a question no one in the pundit world was asking until the past week.  —  Cain has never held public office.  When he ran for the Senate in Georgia in 2004 …
 
 
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Mike O'Brien / Daily Mail:
It's Obama Fried Chicken! …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Mediaite
Jessica Silver-Greenberg / Wall Street Journal:
House Is Gone but Debt Lives On
Discussion: Moe Lane
Mark Steyn / Investor's Business Daily:
Finally, The Cognoscenti Ask: What Could We Be Thinking?
Discussion: Cold Fury
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Sam Baker / Healthwatch:
Supreme Court to hear case on Medicaid rates
Haaretz:
Hamas: ‘Resistance’ against Israel is only option left for Palestinians
Discussion: Jihad Watch and Israel Matzav
 

 
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